See if you can publish some of your work in the Monkey Cage. It could be a good barometer to see if political scientists are interested in your work as well. They straddle political science and policy.
Their deadline for the MA in Political Science was the first week of January unfortunately.
In other news, has anyone heard from other schools yet? I'm surprised there aren't more of us participating on the Canadian thread this year.
I'm applying to Toronto and McGill, as well as some universities in my home country, for an MA in comparative politics. I'm wondering if I should add more applications...